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Composting Garborator

Category: Waste Management
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Some large cities are making Garborators illegal (that thing in your sink that grinds up food). The problem is that the garbage that goes down the drain has detrimental effects on water quality (don't ask me how!).

Instead of flushing all the organic material with the rest of the water, whenever the garborator is on, the water and garbage in it can go into a tank which can be used to water the lawn. You essentially have the same composting, possibly without the long delay from garbage to composte since the garbage is already ground up.

This also makes composting easier since it is more convenient to use a garborator than a composter. The composting tank can be tied into the sprinkler system so that your lawn/garden automatically gets fed mineral/protien rich water.

pedalpete, Mar 31 2004

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Any water treatment utility should do composting. It would take some powerful tracking of contaminants to use the compost acceptable to farmers though.

Sinus, Jul 31 2005